Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

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The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Six planets are aligning in the night sky with every planet visible at the same time.The astronomical event began Tuesday ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

A new study suggests that a planet-sized object may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago.

Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...